If our convention giveaway post left you in a state of “Why don’t I live in Seattle/Philly/Santa Clara!”-induced despair, then perhaps you need a steampunk event of your very own. This list will attempt to gather some of the many upcoming events where you can get involved in the community—or at least observe the phenomenon in its natural habitat.

One-time or annual events:

• Steampunk Mart at the Brooklyn Indie Market, THIS Sunday, 10/24, Brooklyn, NY. Independent designer market and fashion show, including a Literary Corner, sponsored by Tor Books and Tor.com and featuring readings from esteemed literary personages including burlesque star Nasty Canasta and authors G. D. Falksen, Felix Gilman, Leanna Renee Hieber, and N. K. Jemisin, book sales by Mobile Libris, and complimentary tea and scones.

• Steampunk: Tomorrow as it Used to Be, curated by the League of Victorian Imagineers and including a “full-sized, 19-tonne diesel locomotive,” at the Forrester Gallery. Continuing until 12/5/10 in Oamaru, New Zealand.

• Steampuffin’s Steampunk Form & Function Design Competition and Exhibition at The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation. Continuing until 5/10/11 in Waltham, MA.

• Steampunk Haunted House, 10/23-10/31/09 in New York, NY

• Rampage (another steampunk haunted house), until 10/31/10 in Pittsburgh, PA (Warning: plays music automatically.)

• White Mischief Night, 10/30/10 in London, UK

• Doctor Q's Mechanical Masquerade!, 11/6/10 in Atlanta, GA

• TeslaCon, 11/5-7/10 in Madison, WI

• A Steampunk Affair, 11/13/10 in Buxton, ME (near Portland)

• SteamCon II, 11/19-21/10 in Seattle, WA

• The Anachronism, 11/21/10 in New York, NY

• Frozen in Time, 12/4/10 in Somerset, NJ

• Euchronia, 12/31/10 in Melbourne, Australia

• STEAM Fest Midwinter Fling, 1/9/11 in Atlanta, GA

• Nemo’s Steampunk Art & Invention Gallery at Patriot Place’s 20,000 Leagues Entertainment Exhibit, 2/5/11 in Foxboro MA.

• AnachroCon, 2/25-27/11 in Atlanta, GA

• Tekniska Museet Steampunk Weekend. Tentative, but hopefully to be held in February in Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Wokka for more information.

• Wild Wild West Con, 3/4-6/11 in Tuscon, AZ

• The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, 3/25-27/11 Santa Clara, CA (near San Francisco)

• STEAM Fest, 4/9-10/11 in Atlanta, GA

• Oklahoma Steampunk Exhibition, 4/15-17/11 in Oklahoma City, OK

• Gaslight Gathering, 5/6-8/11 in San Diego, CA

• Steampunk World’s Fair, 5/20-22/11 in Somerset, NJ

• World Steam Expo, 5/27-30/11 in Dearborn, MI

• MarCon 46, 5/27-29/11 in Columbus, OH. A steampunk-themed instantiation of an ongoing SF con.

• Renovation, 8/17-21/11 in Reno, Nevada. This is the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention: not specifically steampunk-themed, but Tim Powers is the guest of honor, so there will surely be steampunk programming.

• DragonCon, 9/2-5/11 in Atlanta, GA. A general SF/media convention with an extremely large steampunk contingent.

• Asylum, 9/9-11/11 in Lincoln, United Kingdom

Recurring or roaming events:

• Scott Westerfeld appearances, through 11/24/10 in various locales.

• Cherie Priest appearances, through May 2011 in various locales.

• Gail Carriger appearances, through September 2011 in various locales.

• Dorian’s Parlor, monthly in Philadelphia, PA. Next event is in mid-November.

• Gaslight, monthly in San Francisco, CA. Next event is 11/13.

• Chrononaut, recurring in San Diego, CA. Next event is 12/9.

• The Clockwork Ball, recurring in Raleigh, NC.

• Dances of Vice events. Recurring in New York, NY and Brooklyn, NY. Technically “Jazz Age, Victorian, Rococo and New Romantic Events,” but there’s a large steampunk contingent. Upcoming events include “PhantasmaGOREY: Edward Gorey Halloween Spectacular” (10/31).

The field is growing so rapidly that I’m sure I’m missing something (especially international events), but if you comment with something that I missed, I’d be happy to add it to the list until the end of the Fortnight. Enjoy your newfound steampunk lifestyle!

[Photograph by Chad Heird of New York’s Steampunk Haunted House.]

Liz Gorinsky is an editor at Tor Books. She is deeply sorry she cannot be in several places at once.